Friday Fragments

~ Is it Friday already?  This week really flew by!  Since the teachers in my school district went back on Monday, we've had meetings, meetings, meetings!  

~  New/transfer students register this morning.  This is a little different than past years, so it's going to be interesting to see how many students actually come in this time.

~  YS is finishing his first week of school already.  So far, so good!

~  CH went back to work on Monday.  It's amazing how far the medical field has come in the 10 years since I had my gall bladder out.  No diet restrictions and back to work in a couple of days, as opposed to 10 days when I had mine out.

~  Band booster meetings:  What can I say?  We had a meeting on Tuesday, and it went very smoothly.  We got a lot done in about an hour and a half.

~  We had our the rail on our front porch stained.  What a difference it made!  No pictures; it's dark and I just thought about taking a picture, so it wouldn't do me any good to go out now and take one!

~  CH, YS, & I saw Harry Potter last weekend, and ran into my big brother & my SIL at the theater.  Am I the only geek who cried at the end?  (I know I'm not, 'cause my SIL said she did, too!)  I'm thinking maybe, just maybe, there may be another generation of Potter/Weasley children at Hogwarts to provide entertainment for us!

~ Hope everybody has a good weekend!  We've got a busy one planned, so it's gonna go by pretty fast!

Head over to Mrs. 4444's to link up and see how everybody else's week went!

Food for Thought

One of my SILs had the following as her FB status:

An old Cherokee told his grandson, "My son, there is a battle between two wolves inside us all. One is Evil. It is anger, jealousy, greed, resentment, inferiority, lies, & ego. The other is Good. It is joy, peace, love, hope, humility, kindness, empathy, & truth." The boy thought about it, and asked, "Grandfather, which wolf wins?" The old man quietly replied, "The one you feed."

(I told you it was "food for thought"!)

Wednesday Hodgepodge

Join Joyce with the Hodgepodge!  Click on the button, cut & paste the questions, then answer the questions.  Don't forget to link up!

1. July is National Ice Cream month...your favorite flavor? Soft served, hand dipped, or frozen yogurt...which do you prefer? And technically yogurt is not ice cream but its hot outside so I'll let that slide for today.

Cookie dough.  There's something about the textures, like a party in my mouth!  I prefer soft served.

2. When you travel do you tend to pack too much or too little? 

The times that I've traveled, I think I've taken just enough.  It's better to take too little than too much; you can always buy what you need!

3. What's your favorite cleaning product? 

Right now I would have to say Easy Off oven cleaner.  I had no idea that it did a great job without turning on your oven!  I have to include my glass stove top cleaner for cleaning the window in the oven door.  I didn't have to put a whole lot of elbow grease into getting my oven looking like new!

4. Which is the greater tragedy-an innocent person imprisoned or a guilty person set free? Explain. 

Okay, Joyce:  you always have to throw in a hard one!  Both are tragic, for sure.  I would dare say that more guilty people are set free than innocent people imprisoned.

5. What's the longest trip you've taken by car? 

Tennessee to Texas.  In a car with 9 siblings and my parents.  No air conditioning and no radio.  

I had to check google maps to confirm that it was the longest, and it was.  Coming in a close second is Tn. to Rochester, Mn.   This was on an AFS Short-Term Exchange trip when I was a junior in high school.  But, it was on a bus, so I guess that wouldn't count anyway! 

6. tennis-golf-canoeing-biking...pick one. 

Tennis.  I love to watch, I love to play; although I've had to hang my tennis racket up for a while.

7. What sound drives you crazy? 

When I was young, my brother (who is 3 years older) was a drummer in the band.  He used to beat on anything, and I mean anything.  Used to drive me absolutely bonkers.  

When cars go by with their bass up so loud that it shakes the windows, it's very disturbing.  Why do youngsters think everybody else wants to hear the bass in their car?

8. Insert your own random thought here. 

How's this for random:  It's HOT, y'all!  That's all I got.